Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable natu... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific.
Leave your thoughts about An American Crime.
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.Gut wrenching performances, a well structured narrative, and a great cast makes "An American Crime" one of the finer movies to depict one of the most gruesome travesties of the twentieth century... |
| eFilmCritic.comEric D. SniderWhat purpose does this film serve? I have watched it, and I have contemplated it, and I can come up with no good reason for it to exist. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA misfire and the most problematic film at Sundance, this fact-based tale of child abuse is disturbing, appalling, and voyeuristic due to poor conception and execution by writer-director O'Haver who ironically has been wanting to make it for 20 years. |
| Film ThreatSally FosterThe real high point of this film is Catherine Keener's captivating performance in the role of the troubled and possessive Gertie, vacillating between disturbingly abusive and imploringly sympathetic the way only a truly manipulative psychopath really can. |
| CinematicalKim Voynar(Catherine) Keener, always a versatile actress, takes on the challenge of portraying perhaps one of the most unlikable villains in the history of true crime, and tries to find the humanity buried somewhere within her. |
| New York Magazine/VultureJohn LeonardAn American Crime, wonderfully mounted, wholly absorbing, is also full of blank uneasiness. |
| Movies for the MassesJoseph Proimakisi katalytika akadimaiki eksistorisi toy, poy problimatizei me tin idiazoysa sadistiki tis hroia stin parathesi sokaristikon skinon bias dihos peraitero diereynisi toys, afinei to myalo soy na kykloforei kai na kanei syndeseis mono toy, me ton idio tropo p |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUm projeto que encara a desgraça alheia como mero trampolim para o entretenimento. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttTragic tale of child abuse fails to make any sense of the crime. |
| Slant MagazineMatt NollerIf Eli Roth were to direct a Lifetime movie, it might look something like An American Crime. |
